I like talking to small children because they are comfortable ending a conversation. Adults hate “awkward silence” and will often continue to talk after the most enjoyable part of a conversation has ended. A child will be like “yeah. Anyway bye” and go back to what they were doing two feet away.
If you want 2024 to be your year don’t sit on the couch and wait for it. Go out. Make a change. Smile more. Be excited. Do new things. Throw away what you’ve been cluttering. Let go of negative people. Go to bed early. Wake up early. Show more gratitude. Do things that challenge you. Be brave.
Getting a warning from every. single. senior. that its going to be hell but thinking "how bad can it be, i can handle it" (avg 10th topper misconceptions)
Being on a massive high after 10th results thinking you're gonna academically obliterate everyone in 11th-12th only to go into an extreme low within the first round of 11th grade exams
Cursing yourself for not researching enough before choosing science as your stream, fantasizing about how much better off you would be with Humanities or Commerce (delusional bcz those are hard asw but science is deadly tho)
Finding almost every chapter hard in the beginning and stressing over how you will ever complete the always-massive syllabus only to find that once you reach the end of the year what you thought was hard was just the tip of the iceberg (this also shows growth though so well done everybody)
Communal hatred for organic chemistry, anybody who doesn't hate it is either a genius or absolutely unhinged or both
Teachers always saying "you're a science student now" whenever they want to lecture you on how to never have joy in life and only live for marks
Having massive panic attacks and living in constant anxiety but nothing beats the joy of getting a hard numerical right in the first try
Scouring academic pages for study tips and routines and watching study vlogs etc but as a form of procrastination
Stressing over competitive exams ALL.THE.TIME because everyone you meet will talk about just that incessantly for two years
Realising that there are a plethora of careers you would rather choose than 'doctor' and 'engineering' but feeling unnecessary shame and guilt to pursue those
Coaching classes fooling us all into thinking they'll make us geniuses when actually they mostly add to the stress, even though they aren't completely useless they're definitely not worth lakhs of fees
Missing out on so so so many things in order to stay home and study even though its completely unproductive studying as you would rather be doing the thing you've sacrificed
Feeling guilty about doing ANYTHING that isn't studying, being made to feel guilty by others for doing things you love because "these two years are for sacrifices, after that you have all your life for these things''
The high of acing a test because it is so rare and takes actual blood sweat and tears that it leaves you with dopamine enough to last a week
Having your parents and relatives continually talk to someone older than you who has cracked the exam ur sitting for to get "tips" even if they cracked the exam 7 years ago and the format was completely different and much easier then
Having to rush over the syllabus so much that you forget how much you actually loved to study the subject, having your heart broken thinking that you're not good at your favourite subject anymore when actually its just the fact that its being taught in such a rush and not that you've lost your spark
Having the sympathy of all your non-science friends and always having moye moye talks with your science friends